Yes, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, personally reviews the compensation of all 42,000 employees every cycle, using machine learning tools to streamline the process. He has stated this is a key part of his management strategy, ensuring fair pay and motivation, often increasing the company’s operational expenses.
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@c7 In typical Cisco fashion, all of that is skipped and boiled down to:
"you are ineligible for a raise this year."
This is the type of "technical" person that's out there and maybe employed at csco. No one personally reviews 42k employee salaries. Hope they don't let you do changes to critical networks too.
He uses machine tools ..
like everybody else. And Cisco also has a fair pay policy.
There is nothing new here under the sun. There are lots of ways you might differentiate Cisco from other employers. This is not one of them.
It's a bit absurd to claim that a CEO "personally reviews" something that is done with "machine learning tools".
Nvidia shouldn't be your benchmark for compensation models either. It's pretty easy to compensate people when you're making as much money as Nvidia. It'd be like working at dot coms or Cisco in the late 90's.
And what exactly about compensation models would warrant usage of "machine learning tools"?
Imagine this msg from an Nvidia mgr, "I'm sorry, the CEO and his machine learning tools determined that you are ineligible for a raise this year."
Then swap Nvidia with Cisco in the sentence above and see if it changes how you feel.
Now, in contrast, if the claim is that machine learning tools are being used to analyze the work & value of employees, which is then factored into compensation decisions, that's entirely different and isn't a good thing (AI hallucinations, anyone?).
CR does not care abouts the IC peasant class, especially engineers.